Prestidigitation

For Zela! This is the cover for her Adhemlenei novel, Sword’s Innocence:

(Larger version here.)

Our heroine (with a helpful dragon) is fleeing from the city (and two not-so-helpful dragons).

This was both super-fun and super-challenging. And I’m still squeeing about getting to draw my first real book cover.

Things I learned while working on this:
• Shading silver creatures is tricky, but totally worth it.
• Atmospheric perspective is (still) hard.
• Painting a sufficiently distant forest is very similar to painting fur.
• Shading rocks and mountains is way more fun than it looks. (Seriously, it was kind of hard to stop.)

Looking forward to seeing the story when it’s done. ♥ I hope the rewriting/editing goes well!

For Micia! These are the characters of her Shadowrun roleplaying party:

From the left, we have: Agiwulf (the vampire), LeCross (the technomancer and former vampire hunter), Jacob (the hitman and team leader), and Vandelsca (the drone rigger). Quite a snazzy group of guys.

For a fan of the awesome webcomic White Noise! This is gift art of Wren, the hero:

I’m tickled that a thoughtful person decided to give a present to one of my favorite comics — and more so that I got to draw it. This was a lot of fun.

P.S. I came this close to making the bird a wren. And possibly calling the picture “Double Wren-Bow,” because… there’s the violin bow… and…

…yyyeah…

XD